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I got an email phishing scam that was targeting me as a land surveyor. It appears to come from Allen Instruments, but it is not from our equipment vendor. Others may be getting similar emails. Who knows what malware or other problems may be in the file at the link provided.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FOLLOW THESE LINKS

Note the typos:

Good day , 

I was unable to reach you by your telephone number, because your invoice is more than a week pas due, please reply as soon as possible.

http://docs.google.com/document/ 

Yours Truly,

lnielsen@alleninst.com

Rob_LS wrote:I got an email phishing scam that was targeting me as a land surveyor. It appears to come from Allen Instruments, but it is not from our equipment vendor. Others may be getting similar emails. Who knows what malware or other problems may be in the file at the link provided.

Note the typos:

Good day , 

I was unable to reach you by your telephone number, because your invoice is more than a week pas due, please reply as soon as possible.

http://docs.google.zzz/document/ 

Yours Truly,

lnielsen@alleninst.zzz

Rob: are those links "safe"? probably not

Thank you for asking Peter. Probably not, so I didn't make them urls in my post.